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Originally Posted by MysticCat
This is the main reason I've never made it past a few chapters. It drove me crazy.
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It's not a great book, which makes sense, because it wasn't intended to be (in many ways). As far as teaching it, that's part of the point and the problem: it exists to make a point (and is taught to make that point), but doesn't deliver the point in a particularly easy way, and kids who "get it" easily likely don't need the lesson anyway.
Second this eek
... but not necessarily this one.
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I loved Catcher in the Rye. Loved, loved, loved it. Fairly early in our marriage, I learned that my wife had never read it, and I was bugging her that she had to. I remember watching while she finished it. As I looked at her expectantly, she put it down and rather slowly said, "So . . . you liked this?"
(At least I laughed when she said that.)
Seriously, sometimes I've wondered if it's a high school-or college-aged guy's book.
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I think it might be - anti-heroes still require the reader to relate, and it's really hard for a lot of people to relate to a precocious, whiny, angry, unsure-yet-cocksure, rage-against-the-machine dude feeling his way around the world. Except for other guys in that same spot.